During the nineteenth century many scholars were popped enormously, but the most famous one in the Arab region who also played a crucial rule in Egypt French invasion was Abd al-Rahman al- Jabarti. Al Jabarti was an Egyptian scholar and chronicler who spent most of his life in Cairo. He had a huge part in becoming an authoritative source for many scholars in reconstructing the features of the Egyptian community of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Hatina, 2010, p. 137). Abd al-Rahman al- Jabarti captured the moment of the encounter with modernity and the divide of seniority and erosion of the ulama, where he himself focused on his writing on the religious community …show more content…
One of his masterpiece, known as chronicles, which consists of three known chronicles; Ta’rikh muddat al-faransis bi-misr (“A History of the Period of the French in Egypt”), Mazhar al taqdis bi zawal dawlat al-faransis (“The Demonstration of Piety in the Demise of the French State”), and– Aja’ib al athar fi al tarajim wal- akhbar (“The Marvelous Compositions on Biographies and Chronicles”). The purpose of these chronicles has not been analyzed systematically, while each one of them is an expanded version of the previous one (Hatina, 2010, p. 137). they just narrate events about the history of Egypt in terms of the way the Egyptians live in serial events. Some of them includes the use of language by examining the use of lines, and the rendering of the documents. Thus, each analysis has its own dynamic writing process which affected by political transformations, so as for the Ta’rikh muddat al-faransis bi-misr was written against the new reality created by the French occupation and under the strong impression of the events themselves. Whereas, Mazhar al taqdis bi zawal dawlat al-faransis was written “following the French evacation of Egypt and the return of ottamans” (Hatina, 2010, p.137), which was “only after four years of the Mamluk chaos” (Awad, 1986, p. 8). Lastly, Aja’ib al athar fi al tarajim wal- akhbar, which is al Jabarti’s “most important work …show more content…
The proclamation was written in a style which Napoleon thought by using traditional Islamic writing will convince the Egyptians and rally them into his side. However, most of the Muslim Egyptian did not believe that such a Christian could be a savior of Islam. They also did not believe that Napoleon was honest when he labelled himself as a Muslim. Although, he was sincere in his desire, his solders were not, because they treated the Muslims really bad and they disrespect all religions, not only Islam and that was portrayed when they destroyed churches and killed priests. Al Jabarti does not judge on whether Napoleon was honest or not but rather on Napoleon’s intentions as a whole, which he views as dishonest, which al Jabarti had emphasized by giving some accurate evidences about this matter in Mazhar al